Kevin's Healing Journey: Mama's Big Birthday Weekend

Sunday, September 29, 2019

Mama's Big Birthday Weekend - September 26, 2019

It was a full birthday weekend...and my cup runneth over. I feel so blessed and loved spending lots of time with my boys and getting out to bike/walk. I received lots of love from family and friends with cards, phone calls, text messages, and FB messages...love reading all of them. And my Wild Goose Sisters celebrated with me Wednesday night.

My birthday was on Thursday and it started off with an awesome date night. Jon took me to the Andy Grammer concert at House of Blues with some friends. See photos in a previous post.

On Friday, Jon took the day off and we did the Bike Aboard which was on my bucket list to do together. Riding the train one way and biking back on the Towpath Trail. It was only supposed to be 3 miles but there was a detour and it was more like 4 miles and took us nearly 2 hours. See photos in a previous post.

This weekend our church had their Fall Festival. We checked out the band Friday night and got to see a friend from Kevin's music camp. On Saturday Kevin and I bike/walked over to church for the festival...an easy 1 mile there and 1 mile back, with lots of rest time in between. He enjoyed seeing our friends and listening to the music. He really enjoyed biking home as it started to get dark...he was smiling and laughing the entire way home. Yay, I finally got a photo of him smiling on his bike!

Sunday, we went on another bike/walk on the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail at Station Road Bridge in Brecksville...but no train ride this time...and only 2.5 miles which took about an hour (avg.pace 25 min/mile). We Stopped by the church festival again for a short time and returned later for an outdoor evening Mass.

Hope we didn't overdo it with Kevin. I made sure I was stretching him and giving him some down time between all the bike rides. I'm not ready to go back to reality...especially when it includes a big cook day tomorrow.

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This blog was created to keep our family and friends updated on Kevin's healing journey. It is also our hope that others may find this blog to give help and hope to other delayed kids.

About Kevin

They told us Kevin would never walk or talk. But with lots of prayers, hard work, and extra hands, he began walking when he was four years old and we continue to have faith and hope as we wait patiently for his speech to develop. Kevin is now eight years old. He is diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy due to a brain-injury he had before birth that was caused by a stroke. In 2006, before Kevin was 2 years old, we found Glenn Doman’s book "What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child" that had answers to help children with special needs and developmental delays. We began an individualized home treatment program for Kevin immediately and have been dedicated to our program ever since. We spent three years with the Doman family at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential (IAHP) and now we are with Matthew and Carol Newell at The Family Hope Center (FHC). Twice a year we return to Philadelphia where Kevin receives a neurological evaluation to determine the progress he has made in the last six months. Then they provide us with an individualized, program that puts me in charge to help Kevin develop and reach his fullest potential.

Do You Know a Delayed Child?

The best recommendation we can give to another parent with a special needs or developmentally delayed child (brain-injured, brain-damaged, mentally retarded, mentally deficient, cerebral-palsied, epileptic, autistic, athetoid, hyperactive, attention deficit disordered, developmentally delayed, or down's) is to read Glenn Doman's book What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child and/or Dr. Coralee Thompson and Dr. Philip Maffetone's book Healthy Brains, Healthy Children. By simply reading these books, you will gain valuable information to help your child which will begin to unlock the potential your child has. And best of all you will learn that there are other options to helping your child that you can do yourself. We would also highly recommend attending the parent course at FHC or IAHP. To read how our journey began and the successful progress Kevin has had refer to the January 2010 blog archive.